For Immediate Release        
Contact: Dan Gordon, 617-651-0841 
Oct. 21, 2021 

Mayorkas, Grandi to Headline Virtual Convening
3 to 5 p.m. EDT Monday and Tuesday; register here

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A series of timely conversations about immigration next week will include Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.

The National Immigration Forum’s annual Leading the Way convening will air virtually from 3 to 5 p.m. EDT Monday and Tuesday.

Other speakers will include Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) and Jason Crow (D-Colorado), whom the Forum is recognizing for their work to support Afghan evacuees, and Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya. A conversation on combating extremism and nativism will feature Elizabeth Neumann, Chief Strategy Officer at Moonshot and a member of the Council on National Security and Immigration; Peter Wehner, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center; and David French, Senior Editor at The Dispatch.

Embargoed quotes from this conversation and others are available to media; please contact Dan Gordon. Find the full list of speakers below and more information here. To access the convening schedule and register to attend, sign up via Eventbrite. 

Full Speaker List:
Mindy Belz, Senior Editor, WORLD News Group
Rep. Jason Crow (D), 6th District of Colorado, U.S. House of Representatives
David French, Senior Editor, The Dispatch
Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Michelle Hackman, Immigration Policy Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R), 16th District of Illinois, U.S. House of Representatives
Yuval Levin, Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Tom Linebarger, Chairman and CEO, Cummins Inc.
The Rev. Ed Litton, President, Southern Baptist Convention
Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Department of Homeland Security
Chandler Morse, Head of DC Office/North America Public Policy, Workday
Elizabeth Neumann, Chief Strategy Officer, Moonshot
Edgar Sandoval Sr., President and CEO, World Vision U.S.
Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder and CEO, Chobani
Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS)
Peter Wehner, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Portia Wu, Managing Director of U.S. Public Policy, Microsoft
Jenny Yang, Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Policy, World Relief

Keepers of the American Dream Honorees:
Soren Bjorn, President, Driscoll’s of the Americas
Kit Danley, Founder and President, Neighborhood Ministries (Phoenix)
Linda Y. Rivas, Executive Director, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center (El Paso, Texas)

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